Howler's debut full-length out on Rough Trade January 17

​In an opening sentence that simultaneously manages to name-drop the Replacements and the Strokes, a new press release by Rough Trade is trumpeting the release of Howler's first full-length record, America Give Up, due out this January.

The new full-length album was produced by So-TM label head Chris Heidman and the entire thing was re-recorded in an "insane last minute ten day marathon" just this past September when the band decided the first take wasn't sounding trashy enough.

The announcement came complete with a cosign from Rough Trade owner Geoff Travis himself: "America take note. Something sweet and barbed is stirring in the shape of Howler."

The band will be in town to open for tUnE-yArDs at First Avenue next Saturday, November 12, and will spend the rest of the year overseas touring the UK. They will also take a loop of the major European cities in support of the new record in January and February, with no other US dates on the horizon quite yet.